Wei-Min ShenPersonal InformationUSC Information Sciences Institute Home Residence4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275 Phone: 310-448-8710, Fax: 310-822-0751 Tel: Available upon requestEmail: shen at , URL: /robotsEducationPhD Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA1989 Thesis: Learning from the environment based actions and perceptsAdvisor: Professor Herbert A. SimonMS Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA1986 MS Graduate Study, Institute of Automation, Academy of Sciences, China1983 BS Electronics and Computer Engineering , Jiao-Tong University, Beijing, China 1982AwardsPhi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award , University of Southern California 2003The Best Paper Award , On the Use of Sensors in Self-Reconfigurable Robots , 2002 (International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behaviors SAB-2002) RoboCup World Champion Award , RoboCup, N agoya, Japan 1997 (Featured on CNN, ABC, Discovery, SCIENCE, and other international newspapers and magazines)Meritorious Service Award , Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California 1997Second Place Award in AAAI Robotics Competition, Portland, Oregon (featured on PBS and CNN) 1996National Scholarship Award for Education in USA , The Chinese Ministry of Education 1983Award for First Place Student in national entrance examination, Chinese Academy of Sciences 1983Award for University Outstanding Graduate (top 2%), Northern Jiao-Tong University, China 1982Professional ExperienceUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CADirector Polymorphic Robotics Laboratory, Information Sciences Institute 1999—Associate Director USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems 2002—Project Leader Information Sciences Institute 1998— Research Associate Professor Computer Sciences Department 2005—Research Assistant Professor Computer Sciences Department 1995—2005Computer Scientist Information Sciences Institute 1994-98 Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), Austin TXProject Leader 1994Senior Member of Technical Staff 1993-94 Member of Technical Staff 1989-93 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PAGraduate Research Assistant Department of Computer Science 1983-89 Graduate Teaching Assistant Department of Computer Science 1987-88Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, ChinaGraduate Research Assistant Institute of Automation 1982-83Teaching ExperienceUniversity of Southern California, Department of Computer ScienceAutonomous Learning and Discovery Agents (CS593) (Created this new class)1997-98 Autonomous Learning from the Environment (CS599)1996 Deductive Databases and Data Mining (lectures for CS589)1995-96University of California at Los Angeles, School of Engineering ExtensionData Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases 1998-99NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CaliforniaShort Course on Data Mining Technology and Applications (Short Course) 1999University of Texas at Austin, Department of Management Science and Information SystemsLearning from the Environment Based on Actions and Percepts (Short Course) 1991Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Databases (Short Course) 1994Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Computer ScienceIntroduction to Programming L anguages (TA) 1986-87US PatentsDistributed Control and Coordination of Autonomous Agents in a Dynamic, Reconfigurable Systems2003Application Serial Number: 10/155,489 (allowed), USC File No. 3157A, US Patent #006636781(Description: Hormone-inspired distributed and decentralized control for self-reconfigurable systems) Grants and ContractsDARPA, Cognitive Architecture COGENT, $125K2006-2007 AFOSR, Surprise-Based Learning (PI), $600K2006-2009 NASA, Modular, Self-Reconfigurable and Multifunctional SuperBot , (PI) $4.23M2005-2007 DURIP, Self-Healing Robotic Modules, (PI) $200K,2005-2006 Army Research Office, Self-reconfigurable robotics systems, (PI) $250K2004-2007 DARPA, Applied Learning Networks, $400K (Co-PI)2005-2007 CiSoft, Robotics and AI for Intelligent Oil Field, Chevron-Texaco (PI), $150K2005-2007 National Science FoundationSpace Self-Assembly via Self-Reconfigurable Robots, $275K, (PI)2002-2004 Meta-pattern Based Data Mining Systems, $300K, (PI)1996-1999 US Air Force Office of Scientific ResearchCooperative Control Program, $284K, (PI)2001-2003 Self-Organizing and Autonomous Learning Agents, $950K, (PI)2000-2004 Adaptive Agent Organizations, $700K, (PI)1997-2000 Defense Advanced Research Program AgencySelf-Reconfigurable Robots, $3M, (Co-PI)1998-2002 Robust and Flexible Agent Teams, $2M, (Co-PI)1998-2002 EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANYData Mining for Chemical Compound Design, $120K, (PI)1995-1996 MOTOROLA INC.Data Mining for VLSI Manufacturing Process Control, $100K, (PI) 1995Graduate Student SupervisionUniversity of Southern California (PhD students in the past)Jay Modi , Current position: Assistant Professor in Computer Science Department, Drexel University. PhDthesis Topic: Distributed Constraint Optimization for Multi-Agent Systems (1998-2003)Kasper Stoy, Current position: Assistant Professor in Computer System Engineering, University ofSouthern Denmark. PhD thesis Topic: Control of self-reconfigurable robots (2001-2002)Behnam Salemi, Current position: Computer Scientist, USC/ISI. PhD thesis topic: Distributed Control forChain-Typed Self-Reconfigurable Robots (1997-2003)Jafar Adibi , Current position: Computer Scientist, USC/ISI. PhD thesis topic: Self-Similarity and ExtendedHidden Markov Models for Data Mining. (1997-2002)Ayanna Howard, Current position: Associate Professor, George Tech. I served as a member on her PhDthesis committee with Professor George Bekey. Thesis topic: Manipulation of deformed objects. 1999Alex Guazzelli , Current position: Computer Scientist in Brazil. I served as a member on his PhD thesiscommittee with Professor Michael Arbib. Thesis topic: Hippocampus and navigation. 1999James Montgomery, Current position: Robotics in JPL. I served as a member on his PhD thesis committeewith Professor George Bekey. Thesis topic: Fuzzy control of autonomous helicopter. 1998Michael McHenry, Current position: Senior member of technical staff in JPL. I served as a member on hisPhD thesis committee with Professor George Bekey. 1998Fernando Corbacho, Current position: Computer Scientist, Madrid, Spain. I served as a member on hisPhD committee with Professor Michael Arbib. Thesis topic: Integrated Learning in Rana Computatrix.1997Bonghan Cho , Current position, Philips Electronics, I served as a member on his PhD thesis committeewith Professor Paul Rosenbloom. Thesis topic: Fast matching in AI production systems. 1996University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, (PhD student)Rex Kwok (main advisor: professor Norman Foo) Computational Scientific Discovery 1998University of Texas at Austin, (PhD students)Rwo-Hsi Wang (main advisor: professor Al Mok) Data analysis for electronic devices 1994Tsing-Hwa Chi, Current position: Department Chairman and Professor in University of California at LongBeach. (Main advisor: Andrew Whinston). Thesis topic: Learning for information management 1992University of Southern California (Current PhD students in Computer Science)Mike Rubenstein, 2004-presentFeili Hou, 2004-presentJacob Everist, 2004-presentHarris Chiu, 2005-presentNadeesha Ranasinghe, 2006-presentMaks Krivokon, 2003-present (on leave)University of Southern California (Master students) (completed degree in italics )Kenneth Payne, Autonomous docking for self-reconfigurable robots 2005Harris Chiu , Self-reconfigurable robot locomotion in complex environment 2005Jagadesh Venkendesh , Self-reconfigurable robot locomotion in complex environment 2005 James Han , Self-reconfigurable robots for climbing behaviors 2005Harshit Suri , The design and control of self-assembly FIMER robots 2004Kasra Mogharei , The design and control of self-reconfigurable robots 2004Nadeesha Ranasinghe , Simulation of self-reconfiguration in complex environment 2003Yusuf Ateskan , Control of self-assembly modules in space 2003Aseem Mohanty, Autonomous learning of object models from the environment 2001Yimin Lu, Distributed Control of Self-Reconfigurable Robots 2000XueJun Wang , Data mining and model discovery from legacy databases 2000Consulting ExperienceTsinghua University, Beijing, China 2001 Shanghai Grandar Electronic & Information Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China 2001-2002 G.K. Intelligent System, Houston, TX, USA. Applying Data Mining to Enterprise Integration. 1997-1998 The company also licensed a data mining software package developed by my DataCrystal project.Special Scientific Review Committee InvitationsJPL, External Reviewer, NASA's Deep Space Mission System Program and Mars Technology Program. 2004-2005Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology, Special Proposal Review Committee 2000 US National Science Foundation, Panel Review for Computation and Social Systems Program 1999 US National Science Foundation, Panel Review for Robotics and Intelligent Systems Program 1994-1995 US National Science Foundation, Panel Review for Database and Information Management Program 1991 Invited PresentationsMonterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Self-reconfigurable robots for underwater applications. 9/9/2006 Barcelona Science Museum, Celebration of AI 50th Anniversary, invited talk on Robotics 10/2006 Oxford University, Robotics Seminar on Self-reconfigurable robots 11/2006 University of California, Berkeley, EECS, Seminar on Self-Assembly 11/14/2005University of Pennsylvanian, GRA S P Robotics S eminar 4/8/2005 University of Maryland at College Park, Robotics S eminar 06/2004 NASA Workshop on Modular and self-reconfigurable systems 4/2004 Invited Plenary Talk at the 2004 International Conference on Complex Systems, Boston 5/8/2004 Australian Center for Field Robotics Seminar, University of Sydney, Self-Reconfigurable Robots 7/24/2003 UC San Diego, Invited AI Seminar, Self-Reconfigurable Robots and Digital Hormones 2/22/2003 NASA Ames Research Center, Invited Presentation, Self-Assembly for RoboSphere 11/2002 Stanford Research Institute, Invited Colloquium, Self-Reconfigurable Robots 11/2002 Naval Research Laboratory, Invited AI Seminar, Self-reconfigurable Robots 06/2002 UCLA, Invited CS Seminar, Self-Reconfigurable Robots and Digital Hormones 1/31/2002 NASA Langley Research Center, Workshop on Human and Robotics Space Exploration 11/2001 NASA Ames Research Center, Invited Seminar, Self-Reconfigurable Robots 8/2001 MicroSoft Research Center, Invited Seminar, Soccer and Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Beijing, China 6/2001 Tsinghua University, Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Beijing, China 6/2001 ITT Vaguard Convention, Invited Talk, Hormone-controlled Self-Reconfigurable Robots 5/2001 Chinese Science Academy, ShenYang Institute of Automation, Invited Seminar, On Self-Reconfiguration 4/2001 ShanHai JiaoTong University, Invited Talk, Self-Adaptive Robot Organizations, China 4/2001 American Radiology Society, Data mining techniques and their medical applications 11/1999 USC Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Invited Seminar, On Adaptive Organizations 1999 UCLA, Invited CS Seminar, Model Construction from Databases 1999 University of British Columbia, Invited CS Seminar, Soccer Robots 1998 Simon Fraser University, Invited CS Seminar, Model Construction from Database 1998 Carnegie Mellon University, Invited CS Seminar, On Soccer Robots 1997 Brazil-US International Workshop, Porto Alegre, Brazil, On Intelligent Robotics Agents 1997 The First International Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis, Barden-Barden, Germany 1996 University of California at Irvine, Invited CS Seminar, Metapattern-Based Data Mining 1996 UCLA, Invited CS Seminar, Metapattern-Based Data Mining 1996 Italian International Conference on Abstract Intelligent Agents, Invited Talk, Autonomous Learning 1994 University of Texas at Austin, Invited MS Seminar, Integration of Heterogeneous Databases 1994 Eastman Chemical Company, TN, Invited Corporate Seminar, Data Mining for Chemical Databases 1994 Bellcore Inc., NJ, Invited Corporate Seminar, Data Mining for Telecommunication Databases 1993 University of Texas at Austin, Invited Seminar for Management Science, Autonomous Learning Agents 1991 Research InterestsSelf-reconfigurable robots and systems Biomimetic robots and systemsData mining and knowledge discovery Machine learningComputational scientific discovery Self-organization theories and modelsMulti-agent systems Distributed constraint optimizationDistributed control of complex systems Modeling of complex systems and BrainLife science and technologyResearch ProjectsLearning 2006-2009 Surprise-BasedSuperBot: Modular, reconfigurable and multifunctional robots for Space Applications 2005-2007 CATALINA: Autonomous underwater robots 2004-2007 SERES: Self-healing robots 2005-2007 MORPHOSE: Self-reconfigurable robots 2004-2007 SOLAR: Space self-assembly via self-reconfigurable robots 2002-2004 CiSoft: Robotics application for intelligent oil field 2005-2006 HORMCOMM: Hormone-inspired adaptive communication 2001-2003 SOALA: Self-organizing and autonomous learning robots and agents 2000-2004 CONRO: Self-reconfigurable robots 1998-2002 DYNAMITE: Dynamic and real-time distributed resource allocation in multi-agent systems 1998-2002 TEAMCORE: Robust and flexible multi-robot agent teams 1998-2001 ADAPTEAM: Adaptive and self-organizing agent teams 1997-2000 Dreamteam: Soccer-playing robot teams (1997 world champion) 1997-1999 DataCrystal: Metapattern-based, integrated data mining systems 1996-2000robots 1996 navigationYODA:IndoorSIMS: Intelligent data mediator 1995-1998 DSQTM: Distributed semantic query/transaction manager (~50,000 lines), MCC 1992-1994 CYC: Learning in very large knowledge base, MCC 1990-1992PhD DissertationShen, W.-M. Learning from the Environment Based on Actions and Percepts 1989 Carnegie Mellon University, under the supervision of Nobel Laureate Professor Herbert A. SimonBooks1.Shen, W.-M., Autonomous Learning from the Environment (Foreword by Professor Herbert A. Simon), W. H.Freeman, Computer Science Press, 1994.2.Shen, W.-M., (editor) Learning Action Models: A Collection of Research Papers, AAAI Press, 1993.3.Gini, M., W.-M. Shen, C. Torras, H. Yuasa (editors) Intelligent Autonomous Systems, IAS7, IOS Press, 2002.4.Shen, W.-M. (editors) Handbook of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery,Oxford University Press, 2001. Journal Publications1.Colombano, S.P., and Wei-Min Shen. Self-Sustaining Robotic Systems, Geust Editoral, Autonomous Robots,20(2):83-84, 2006.2.Shen, W.-M., Maks Krivokon, Harris Chiu, Jacob Everist, Michael Rubenstein, Jagadesh Venkatesh,Multimode Locomotion for Reconfigurable Robots, Autonomous Robots, 20(2):165-177, 2006.3. M odi, P. J., W.-M. Shen, M. Tambe, and M. Yokoo, ADOPT: Asynchronous Distributed ConstraintOptimization with Quality Guarantees, Artificial Intelligence Journal, 161(1-2):180, January 2005.4.Shen, W.-M, P. Will, A. Galstyan, C.-M. Chuong, Hormone-inspired self-organization and distributed controlof robotic swarms, Autonomous Robots, 17:93-105, 2004.5.Jiang, T-X., Wideltz, RB., Shen, W.-M., Will, P., Wu, DY., Lin, CM., Jung, JS., Chuong, CM., 2004.Integument pattern formation involves genetic and epigenetic controls operated at different levels: Featherarrays simulated by a digital hormone model. International Journal on Developmental Biology, 48, 2004.6.Salemi, B., P. Will, and W.-M. Shen, Distributed Task Negotiation in Modular Robots, Special Issue on"Modular Robotics", Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ), 2003.7.Shen, W.-M., Self-Organization through Digital Hormones, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 81-83, 8/2003.8.Stoy, K., W.-M. Shen, P. Will, Global Locomotion from Local Interaction in Self-Reconfigurable Robots,Robotics and Autonomous Systems, (in press) 2003.9.Shen, W.-M., P. Will, B. Khoshnevis, Autonomous Docking in Self-Reconfigurable Robots, IEEE Transactionson Mechatronics, (accepted) 2003.10.Shen, W.-M., B. Salemi, and P. Will, Hormone-Inspired Adaptive Communication and Distributed Control forCONRO Self-Reconfigurable Robots, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 18(5), October, 2002. 11.Stoy, K, W.-M. Shen, P. Will, Using Role-Based Control to Produce Locomotion in Chain-type Self-Reconfigurable Robots, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, 7(4), 410-417, Dec. 2002.12.Shen, W.-M. and Mark Yim, Self-Reconfigurable Robots. Guest Editoral, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics,7(4), 401-402, Dec. 2002.13.Shen, W.-M., P. Will, and A. Castano. CONRO: Towards Deployable Robots with Inter-Robots MetamorphicCapabilities, Autonomous Robots, 8 (3): 309-324, 2000.14.Shen W.-M., Adibi J, Adobbati R, et al. Integrated reactive soccer agents, Lecture Notes on Arti icialIntelligence, 1604: 286-298, 1999.15.Shen, W.-M.., J. Adibi, R. Adobbati, B. Cho, A. Erdem, H. Moradi, B. Salemi, and S. Tejada. TowardsIntegrated Soccer Robots, AI Magazine, 19(3) 79-85, 1998.16.Tambe, M. and L. Johnson and W-M. Shen. Adaptive Agent Tracking in Real-world Multi-Agent Domains: APreliminary Report. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 48, 105-124, 1998.17.Shen, W.-M., J. Adibi, B. Cho, G. Kaminka, J. Kim, B. Salemi, and S. Tejada. YODA: The Young ObservantDiscovery Agent, AI Magazine. 18(1) 37-45, 1997.18. A. Famili, W.-M. Shen, R. Weber, and E. Simoudis. Data Preprocess for Intelligent Data Anaysis. InternationalJournal of Intelligent Data Analysis, 1(1), 1997.19.Shen, W.-M. and B. Leng. A Metapattern-Based Automated Discovery Loop for Integrated Data Mining. IEEETransactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, 8(6) 898-910, 1996.20.Patil, R. and W. Zhang and W.-M. Shen. An Information Mediator Network for Tasks in DynamicEnvironments. IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics, 1996.21.Y. Arens, C. Knoblock, and W.-M. Shen. Query Reformulation for Dynamic Information Integration. Journalof Intelligent Information Systems, 6, 99-130, 1996.22.Shen, W.-M. The Process of Discovery. Foundations of Science, 1(2), 1995.23.Shen, W.-M. Discovery as Autonomous Learning from the Environment, Machine Learning, 12, 143-156,1993.24.Shen, W.-M. and H.A. Simon. Fitness Requirements for Scientific Theories Containing Recursive TheoreticalTerms, British Journal of Philosophy of Science, 44, 641-652, 1993.25.Shen, W.-M. Discovering regularities from knowledge bases. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 7(7)623--636, 1992.26.Shen, W.-M. LIVE: An architecture for autonomous learning from the environment, ACM SIGART Bulletin,Special issue on Integrated Cognitive Architectures, 2(4), 151-155, 1992.27.Shen, W.-M. and C. Collet and M.N. Huhns. Resource integration using a large knowledge base in Carnot.IEEE Computer, 24(12), 55-62, 1991.28.Shen, W.-M. Functional Transformation in AI Discovery Systems. Artificial Intelligence, 41(3), 257-272, 1989. Book Chapters1.Behnam Salemi, Peter Will, Wei-Min Shen, Autonomous Discovery and functional response to topologicalchange in self-reconfigurable robots, in Complex Engineering Systems, 2006.2.Shen, W.-M., P. Will, B. Khoshnevis, Self-Assembly in Space via Self-Reconfigurable Robots, in Multi-RobotSystems: the Second NATO Workshop, edited by A. Schultz and L. Parker , Kluwer Academic, 2003.3.Shen, W.-M. and C.M. Chuong, Simulating self-organization with the Digital Hormone Model, in Multi-RobotSystems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, edited by A. Schultz and L. Parker , Kluwer Academic, 2002. 4.Shen, W.-M., B. Mitbander, K.L. O ng, and C. Zaniolo. Metaqueries for Data Mining. In Advances inKnowledge Discovery and Data Mining, editors Fayyad U., G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, P. Smyth, R. Uthurusamy.MIT Press. 1995.5.Woelk, D., M. Huhns, N. Jacobs, T. Ksiezyk, K. O ng, W.-M. Shen, M. Singh, and C. Tomlinson. CarnotPrototype. In Heterogeneous Databases, edited by O mran A. Bukhres and Ahmed Elmagarmid. MIT Press.1995.6.Shen, W.-M. Learning deterministic finite automata using local distinguishing experiments. In ComputationalLearning Theory and Natural Learning Systems, edited by T. Petsche and S. Judd and S. Hanson. MIT Press.1994.Refereed Conference Papers1.Jacob Everist, Feili Hou, and Wei-Min Shen. Transformation of Control in Congruent Self-ReconfigurableRobot Topologies. In Proc. 2006 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China,October 2006.2.Mark Moll, Peter Will, Maks Krivokon, and Wei-Min Shen. Distributed Control of the Center of Mass of aModular Robot. In Proc. 2006 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, 2006. 3. Behnam Salemi, Mark Moll, and Wei-Min Shen. SUPERBOT: A Deployable, Multi-Functional, and ModularSelf-Reconfigurable Robotic System. In Pro c. 2006 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Co nf. o n Intelligent Ro bo ts and Systems, Beijing, China, October 2006.4.Suri, Hashit, P. Will, and W.-M. Shen, System Design of Robots for Application to In-Space Assembly, InProc. 2006 IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, October 2006.5.Harris Chi Ho Chiu and Wei-Min Shen. Concurrent and Real-Time Task Management for Self-ReconfigurableRobots. In Proc. Second Workshop on Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Philadelphia, USA, August 2006.6.Shen, W.-M., et al., On the design of multifunctional and self-reconfigurable robots for space, SPACE-2006Conference, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, San Jose, USA, September 19-21, 2006.7. Shen, W.-M., Maks Krivokon, Harris Chiu, Jacob Everist, Michael Rubenstein, Jagadesh Venkatesh, MultimodeLocomotion via SuperBot Reconfigurable Robots, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2006, Orlando, USA.8.Feili Hou, Wei-Min Shen, Mathematical Foundation for Hormone-Inspired Control for Self-ReconfigurableRobotic Systems, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2006, Orlando, USA.9. Feili Hou, Wei-Min Shen, Hormone-inspired Adaptive Distributed Synchronization of Reconfigurable Robots,The 9th International Conference on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (IAS-9), Tokyo, Japan, March 2006. 10.Payne, K., Everist, J., Hou, F., Shen, W.-M., Single-Sensor Probabilistic Localization on the SeReS Self-Reconfigurable Robot, The 9th International Conference on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems (IAS-9), Tokyo, Japan, March 2006.11.Shen, W.-M. Modular, multifunctional and self-reconfigurable SuperBot for Space Applications, SpaceTechnology and Application International Forum (STAIF-2006), Albuquerque, NM, February, 2006.12.Shen W.-M., Bogdanowicz J. Chun W. Yim M. Will P. M. Sims M. Colombano S. Kortenkamp D. VanderzylS. Baumgartener E. Taylor J., Superbots: Modular, Multifunctional, Reconfigurable Robotic System for Space Exploration, LEAG-2005 Conference on Lunar Exploration, Houston, TX, Oct 2005.13.Taylor G. J. Lentz R. C. F. Lawrence S. J. Martel L. M. Shen W.-M. Will P. M. Sims M. H. Colombano S.Kortenkamp D. Damer B. Chun W., SuperBots on the Lunar Surface: Mini-Mobile Investigation System (Mini-MIS) LEAG-2005 Conference on Lunar Exploration, Houston, TX, Oct 2005.wrence S. J. Taylor G. J. Lentz R. C. F. Martel L. M. Shen W.-M. Will P. M. Sims M. H. Colombano S.Kortenkamp D. Damer B. Chun W. Superbots on the Lunar Surface: A Habitat Operations and Maintenance System (HOMS) LEAG-2005 Conference on Lunar Exploration, Houston, TX, Oct 2005.15.Lentz R. C. F. Taylor G. J. Lawrence S. J. Martel L. M. Shen W.-M. Will P. M. Sims M. H. Colombano S.Kortenkamp D. Damer B. Chun W. SuperBots on the Lunar Surface: A Robotic Multi-Use Lunar Explorer (MULE) LEAG-2005 Conference on Lunar Exploration, Houston, TX, Oct 2005.16.Everist, J., Mogharei, K., Suri, H., Ranasinghe, N., Khoshnevis, B., Will, P., Shen, W.-M., A System for In-Space Assembly, International Conference on Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Sendai, Japan, 2004.17.Payne, K., Salemi, B., Will, P., Shen, W.-M., Sensor-Based Distributed Control for Chain-Typed Self-Reconfiguration, International Conference on Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Sendai, Japan, 2004.18.Rubenstein, M., Krivokon, M., Shen, W.-M., Robotic Enzyme-Based Autonomous Self-Replication,International Conference on Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Sendai, Japan, 2004.19.Salemi, B., Will P., and Shen, W.-M., Autonomous Discovery and Functional Response to Topology Change inSelf-Reconfigurable Robots, International Conference on Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Sendai, Japan, 2004.20.Rubenstein, M., K. Payne, P. Will, W.-M. Shen, Docking among Independent and Autonomous CONRO Self-Recofigurable Robots, International Conference on Robotics and Automation. April-May 2004, New Orleans, USA.21.Salemi, B. and Wei-Min Shen. Distributed Behavior Collaboration for Self-Reconfigurable Robots.International Conference on Robotics and Automation. April-May 2004, New Orleans, USA.22.Salemi, B., P. Will, and W.-M. Shen, Distributed Task Negotiation in Modular Robots, InternationalConference on Intelligent Robotics Systems (IROS), Los Vegas, 2003.23.Shen, W.-M., P. Will, B. Khoshnevis, Self-Assembly in Space via Self-Reconfigurable Robots, InternationalConference on Robotics and Automation, Taiwan, 2003.24.Stoy, K., W.-M. Shen, P. Will, Implementing Configuration Dependent Gaits in Self-Reconfigurable Robots,International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taiwan, 2003.25.Khoshnevis, B., P. Will, W.-M. Shen, Highly Compliant and Self-Tightening Docking Modules for Precise andFast Connection of Self-Reconfigurable Robots, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Taiwan, 2003.26.Modi, J.P., W.-M. Shen, M. Tambe, M. Yokoo, (nomination for best student paper) An AsynchronousComplete Method for Distributed Constraint Optimization, Proceedings of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Melbourne, Australia, 2003.27.Shen, W.-M., P. Will, Self-Reconfigurable Robots for ROBOSPHERE, The RoboSphere Workshop at NASAAmes Research Center, 2002.28.Shen, W.-M., C.-M. Chuong, P. Will, Digital Hormone Models for Self-Organization, Artificial L ife VIIIInternational Conference on Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Sydney, Australia, Dec. 2002.29.Shen, W.-M., C.-M. Chuong, P. Will, Simulating Self-Organization for Multi-Robot Systems, InternationalConference on Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Switzerland, 2002.30.Shen, W.-M., C.-M. Chuong, Simulating self-organization with the Digital Hormone Model, in Multi-RobotSystems: From Swarms to Intelligent Automata, edited by A. Schultz and L. Parker , Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.31.Shen, W.-M. and B. Salemi, Distributed and Dynamic Task Reallocations in Robot Organization, IEEEConference on Robotics and Automation, Washington DC, 2002.32.Støy, K., W.-M. Shen, and P. Will, On the Use of Sensors in Self-Reconfigurable Robots, In proceedings of the7th international conference on simulation of adaptive behavior (SAB02), Edinburgh, UK, August 4-9, 2002. 33.Støy, K., W.-M. Shen, and P. Will, How to Make a Self-Reconfigurable Robot Run, In proceedings of the 1stinternational joint conference on autonomous agents and multiagent systems (AAMAS'02), Bologna, Italy, 2002.34.Støy, K., W.-M. Shen, and P. Will, Global Locomotion from Local Interaction in Self-Reconfigurable Robots,In proceedings of the 7th international conference on intelligent autonomous systems (IAS-7), Marina del Rey, California, USA, March 25-27, 2002.35.Scerri, P., P. J. Modi, W.-M. Shen, M. Tambe, Are Multiagent Algorithms Relevant for Robotics Applications?A Case Study of Distributed Constraint Algorithms, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2002.36.Adibi, J., W.-M. Shen, E. Noorbakhsh, Phase Shift and Change Point detection by Fractal Dimensions, 19thInternational Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-2003), IEEE Computer Society, March 5 - March 8, 2003.37.Adibi, J. and W.-M. Shen, Advance Application of Fractal Dimension and Self-Similarities in Data Mining,Invited talk in First Workshop on Fractals and Self-similarity in Data Mining: Issues and Approaches, in conjunction with 8th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Edmonton, Canada, 2002.38.Adibi, J., W.-M. Shen, E. Noorbakhsh, Self-Similar Hidden Markov Model for Predictive Modeling of NetworkData, SIPE DM: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: Theory, Tools, and Technology Intelligent Data Analysis, Florida 2002.39.Adibi, J., W.-M. Shen, E. Noorbakhsh, Self-Similarity for Data Mining and Predictive Modeling, A Case Studyfor Network Data, The Sixth Pacific Area Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Taiwan, 2002.40.Shen, W.-M. and B. Salemi, Towards Distributed and Dynamic Task Reallocation, proceedings of the 7thinternational conference on intelligent autonomous systems (IAS-7), Marina del Rey, California, 2002.41.Shen, W.-M. and P. Will, Docking in Self-Reconfigurable Robots, International Conference on IntelligentRobotics Systems (IROS), Hawaii, 2001.42.Khoshinevis, B., R. Kovac, W.-M. Shen, and P. Will, Reconnectable Joints for Self-Reconfigurable Robots,International Conference on Intelligent Robotics Systems (IROS), Hawaii, 2001.43.Salemi, B., W.-M.. Shen, and P. Will, Hormone Controlled Metamorphic Robots, in Proc. of Intl. Conf. onRobotics and Automation (ICRA), May. 2001.。
